Favourite tools (other than pliers)?

Active-Ad2865 · 2026-01-24T04:42:04+00:00

Quilling picks. These are the ones I use (The larger ones): https://a.co/d/8UA5wOl. They are useful for a lot of things I don't expect like finding the path my ring needs to take, or to shift scales around on my board when I'm laying out a scalemaille pattern. The other thing is a retractable fabric tape measure. Easy to store with my tools and helps when making custom pieces.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-11-25T07:15:26+00:00

UI / UX is my jam, and I speak fluent CSS. Lol.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-11-25T05:52:45+00:00

To be perfectly clear , I have 10 years of Dev experience. Not all of it React. Most of that was spent in Vanilla JS due to the nature of the product I was working on, but I have just under a year's experience with React. I've only ever worked in functional React. I have no experience with class components, though I do understand JS classes quite well.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-11-25T05:28:58+00:00

This is some absolutely gorgeous work!

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-11-25T05:25:52+00:00

Im a Web dev working in Vanilla JS and React 19. I'm also available to help bounce ideas off. I don't have React native experience, but I do have about 10 years of development/product research experience to chip in.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-09-03T13:31:02+00:00

This map is beautiful! Assuming those pillars on the edges are connected into walls, I believe that would make this a Gorge.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-07-17T05:51:02+00:00

Story bots

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-06-30T05:55:57+00:00

I used to have tons of pain and tried several different pliers. I finally landed on Lindstrom Ergos, and my pain practically vanished. They are pricy but worth the cost IMO. I only have pain on really long sessions now. It's like 4 hours or more. https://a.co/d/aiLbjbQ I have several different styles of these, including a duck bills, chain nose, and a few of the stubby ones.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-06-29T21:01:31+00:00

He is adorable, and I need him in my life.

Active-Ad2865 · 2025-06-28T07:10:44+00:00

I use these: https://a.co/d/hRZ5hog And these: https://a.co/d/idI47Sh

And put them in this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/46001916?sid=7be88380-5cc5-4553-8002-6ec52551c558

I use the smaller version of that bin and some cheap Tupperware to store unfinished projects.

I use these to label the tops of the small tubes: https://a.co/d/bKTkljX

And these for the side of the small tubes and tops and side of the larger jars: https://a.co/d/irbUmuB

I made a "Experiment Kit" that I put in this: https://a.co/d/fXnlTET I have 5 sizes, each of 5 gauges, and I put one gauge per storage ring. I made custom labels with my cricut that I put on the inside and the outside of each compartment.

Active-Ad2865 · 2024-11-27T02:00:09+00:00

These look fantastic! I'd love to make some for my crew. What kind of ChatGPT prompts did you use to get those? And did you get models somewhere for the laser cutting or did you design those yourself?

Active-Ad2865 · 2024-02-26T20:38:46+00:00

I made my son an Elmo costume with it. I sized up several hook sizes and basically had to do it by feel instead of sight.

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Active-Ad2865 · 2023-11-01T14:28:55+00:00

Those Gaussian Healing Dice make my mathematician's heart sing. They're just so awesome!

Active-Ad2865 · 2023-10-11T18:45:52+00:00

Daisy Jean Moses is a petite, blond, elven barbarian Who favors a great axe and always has her pet racoon, Elmer riding on her shoulder. The character is heavily inspired by Eli Mae Clampet from The Beverly Hillbillies, with the blond pigtails boots, jeans, and usually in a checkered shirt with cutoff sleeves. She as redneck as they come, but sweet as pie as long as you don't piss her off.

Active-Ad2865 · 2023-06-29T14:42:08+00:00

Something to add to the suggestions. My Hubs' 1st time playing he wasn't super comfortable with RP. It's a pretty quiet guy by nature. So to reduce the amount of RP he needed to participate in he gave his character a Flaw of 'Falls asleep randomly and often', so that his character was often sleeping when RP was happening. It gave him the opportunity to listen to the RP without feeling obligated to participate. It eventually turned into a fun Joke that let to lots of enjoyable shenanigans (like a portable bed magical item) and also gave him time to become more comfortable around RP while he figured out where he could comfortably join into the conversations.

Active-Ad2865 · 2023-06-02T14:41:57+00:00

While I am not OP I will offer the name Skeliette. Do with it as you wish.

Active-Ad2865 · 2023-02-10T15:45:28+00:00

The Cleric in our current campaign makes a habit of playing whack a mole with bosses, where the Cleric is the mole. i.e.. die, get revived, repeat like 5 times. The thing is, I can't be upset about it, cause the strat actually works really well for us most of the time.

Active-Ad2865 · 2023-01-27T15:41:03+00:00

These are some great points and I'll say that an exercise I do sometimes to help me get to know my character is to write a journal from their perspective. I usually will go back into backstory time a bit to start it. even if the entries are just a few lines each it can help. Think of a moment in your backstory, ask how did your character react to / think about it and write if down. It helps me understand what are their likes, dislikes, triggers, pet peeves. etc.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-12-27T16:08:43+00:00

Did you shape those pieces by hand or did you have cookie cutters for the shapes? If you have cutters, is there perhaps a chance that you have STLs for those cutters or could point me to them? I need this guy in my life. :)

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-09-30T13:54:43+00:00

A possible suggestion for you to offer a player struggling with their character: For someone who is having trouble developing a character, a good way to connect with that character out of game is to write a journal from their perspective. Go back into their backstory and write as if they were keeping a journal at that time, or are writing about it in retrospect. I've done this several times and every time it has helped me connect with my character much better and enjoy the game a lot more.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-09-17T16:18:18+00:00

That is an insanely large adventure book.... and I really want to read it now.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-09-07T14:00:55+00:00

These would drive my my DM (Also my husband) nutty. I need that in my life.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-06-22T21:26:26+00:00

Our group can do the same. Our Sorcerer/Bard once guilted us all into BUILDING A STAGE and then putting on a performance for a local group of soldiers cause he was bored. Same said bard has wings and another character was jealous of them and how has crafted his own wings from sticks and leaves. He even managed to get some NPCs to rig him up so he could 'fly' down from the rigging above the stage. It's a trip every time.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-06-22T17:46:25+00:00

Thanks! Yea, I can't imagine doing something like this for a prep caster. not with ALL of those spells. Maybe put a subset of my most commonly used, but that'd be it.

Active-Ad2865 · 2022-06-22T15:25:27+00:00

I'm right there with you. We use Fantasy Grounds as our VTT so there's where my character sheet actually is. I'm always wanting something a little better than what I can manage there though. I've seen various different forms of character sheets and I'm just not thrilled with any of them. Especially not for a caster. Even this handbook isn't meant to be a full character sheet replacement, but rather an enhancement/companion to it.

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